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Satan's Deception: How the Serpent Corrupts the Mind

First, the *sources* of our vulnerability: the human heart harbors dormant moral propensities until outward circumstance awakens them.

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Yet beneath such plausible disguises lie spiritual impostures that demand our careful discernment.

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